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Cosh

noun
1.
A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people.  Synonyms: blackjack, sap.






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"Cosh" Quotes from Famous Books



... case with the possets that were in fashion before. There is no meeting now in the summer evenings, as I remember often happened in my younger days, with decent ladies coming home with red faces, tosy and cosh, from a posset-masking; so, both for its temperance and on account of Mrs Malcolm's sale, I refrained from the November in this year to preach against tea; but I never lifted the weight of my displeasure from off the smuggling trade, until it was ...
— The Annals of the Parish • John Galt

... Leibnitz endeavours to reconcile liberty and necessity. Section VI. The attempt of Edwards to establish free and accountable agency on the basis of necessity—The views of the younger Edwards, Day, Chalmers, Dick, D'Aubigne, Hill, Shaw, and M'Cosh, concerning the agreement of liberty and necessity. Section VII. The sentiments of Hume, Brown, Comte, and Mill, in relation to the antagonism between liberty and necessity. Section VIII. The views ...
— A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe



Words linked to "Cosh" :   bludgeon, hit



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